Time Warner Cable Keeps Some Small Channels

By

William Launder and

Shalini Ramachandran

Updated Jan. 1, 2013 11:35 a.m. ET

Time Warner Cable Inc., which had warned of its intention to drop little-watched TV channels, agreed to at least temporarily extend carriage of several such channels ahead of the Dec. 31 deadline for renewal.

While the cable operator dropped independently owned channel Ovation at midnight Monday night, as it had previously said it would, it agreed to temporarily keep two channels owned by AMC Networks Inc., IFC and WE tv, on its...